Hyperscoring Music: Education and Therapy Through Composing

Is the "Mozart effect" real — the claim that listening to music develops the brain? Research shows that creating music is what really makes a difference. This short documentary highlights work at MIT to make composing accessible to all. 

Interviewees from the MIT Media Lab's Hyperinstruments Group: Todd Machover, Director, and Mary Farbood and Adam Boulanger, graduate students

2004

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.